Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > In an ideal world this code would be in a nice little library and dpkg and > Deity would both happily call it to do the needed things. But since it is > quite unlikely that we will be able to get anyone to rewrite enough of > dpkg so that it can use our library Ian will end up rewriting our code and > we will have two (supposidly) identical views of how to do dependancy.
Personally, I would like to see this happen ultimately. I think the immediate goal of deity should be a rewrite of dselect, but ultimately, I think that all package management should be handled by one backend library, with both dpkg and deity being possible front ends. (A cgi front end being another). I think there is nothing sacred about the current dpkg. I think it's great and the best package manager around, but that doesn't mean that it's perfect. I think we should ultimately be pushing for the above to happen. Let's get the first version of deity out first though. 8) Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/
